Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,
And abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon You.

King James Version

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

Holman Bible

For You, Lord, are kind and ready to forgive,
rich in faithful love to all who call on You.

International Standard Version

Indeed you, Lord, are kind and forgiving, overflowing with gracious love to everyone who calls on you.

A Conservative Version

For thou, LORD, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in loving kindness to all those who call upon thee.

American Standard Version

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in lovingkindness unto all them that call upon thee.

Amplified


For You, O Lord, are good, and ready to forgive [our sins, sending them away, completely letting them go forever and ever];
And abundant in lovingkindness and overflowing in mercy to all those who call upon You.

Darby Translation

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, and art of great loving-kindness unto all that call upon thee.

Julia Smith Translation

For thou, O Jehovah, art good and forgiving, and great of mercy to all calling to thee.

King James 2000

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; and abundant in mercy unto all them that call upon you.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For you, O Lord, [are] good and forgiving, and abundant in loyal love for all who call to you.

Modern King James verseion

For You, Lord, are good and ready to forgive, and rich in mercy to all those who call on You.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For thou, LORD, art good and gracious, and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

NET Bible

Certainly O Lord, you are kind and forgiving, and show great faithfulness to all who cry out to you.

New Heart English Bible

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

The Emphasized Bible

For, thou, O My Lord, art good and forgiving, And abundant in lovingkindness, to all who call upon thee.

Webster

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and abundant in mercy to all them that call upon thee.

World English Bible

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

Youngs Literal Translation

For Thou, Lord, art good and forgiving. And abundant in kindness to all calling Thee.

References

Easton

Hastings

Context Readings

Lament And Petition

4 Give me joy, O Jehovah, and lift me up. 5 For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,
And abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon You.
6 Open your ears to my prayer, O Jehovah. Pay attention to my supplications!


Cross References

Joel 2:13

Rip apart your heart, and not your garments. Turn to Jehovah your God! He is gracious and merciful. He is slow to anger and abundant in loving-kindness. He will turn back from doing harm.

Exodus 34:6

Jehovah then passed in front of him and called out: I, Jehovah, am a God who is full of compassion and pity. I am not easily angered and show great love and faithfulness.

Psalm 103:8

Jehovah is merciful and gracious. He is slow to anger, and rich in loving-kindness.

Nehemiah 9:17

They would not obey you and gave no thought to the wonders you did among them. They became stubborn and turning away from you. They appointed a leader over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt. However, you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.

Psalm 25:8

Jehovah is good and decent. That is why he teaches sinners the way they should live.

Psalm 130:4

But there is forgiveness with you, that you may be reverenced.

Psalm 130:7

O Israel hope in Jehovah! For with Jehovah there is loving kindness. With him is abundant redemption.

Psalm 145:8-9

Jehovah is gracious and merciful; Slow to anger and great in loving-kindness.

Psalm 145:18

Jehovah is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth.

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Jehovah, are a compassionate and merciful God. You are patient, always faithful and ready to forgive.

Psalm 119:68

You are good and do good. Teach me your statutes.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to Jehovah, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Jeremiah 33:3

Call to me and I will answer you. I will tell you grand and impressive things, things you do not know.'

Ezekiel 36:33

This is what the Lord Jehovah says: 'On the day that I cleanse you from all your wickedness, I will cause your cities to be lived in again, and your ruins will be rebuilt.

Ezekiel 36:37

This is what the Lord Jehovah says: 'I will also let the people of Israel ask me to make them as numerous as sheep.

Daniel 9:9

To Jehovah our God belong mercies and forgiveness. We have rebelled against him.

Jonah 4:2

He prayed to Jehovah: I pray to you, O Jehovah, was this what I said, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish. Because I knew that you are a gracious God. You are merciful, slow to anger, abundant in loving kindness, and one who takes pity over calamity (tragedy) (catastrophe) (disaster).

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like you who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? You do not keep your anger forever, because you delight in loving-kindness (unchanging love).

Luke 11:9-10

I say to you: Ask and it will be given you. Seek and you will find. Knock and it will be opened to you.

John 4:10

Jesus answered: If you know the gift of God and who asked you for a drink, you would have asked him to give you living water.

Acts 2:21

It will come to pass, that whoever will call on the name of Jehovah will be saved. (Joel 2:32)

Romans 5:20-21

The law came that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased God's loving kindness increased even more.

Romans 10:12-13

For there is no difference between Jew and Greek. The same Lord (God) of all is abounding in riches for all who call on him.

Ephesians 1:6-8

This is to the praise of the glory of his kindness, with which he freely honored us, the loved ones.

Ephesians 2:4

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

1 John 4:8-9

He who does not love does not know God for God is love.

Psalm 36:7

How precious is your loving-kindness, O God! And the children of men put their trust in the shadow of your wings.

Psalm 52:1

([Psalm of David]) Why do you brag about the evil you have done, O mighty man? The loving kindness of God endures continually!

Psalm 69:16

Answer me, Jehovah, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.

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